Overview
- The 2025–2026 economic plan totals about €433 million, allocating roughly €187 million in municipal lump sums, €62 million for hospitals and digitalization, and nearly €183 million for state measures.
- Officials say the special fund is designed to accelerate multi‑year investments, ensure transparency across its full term, and provide a legal basis to deliver municipalities’ shares as lump-sum payments.
- Across the fund’s lifetime, the government outlines about €1.5 billion for municipal infrastructure, €1 billion for state projects such as roads, bridges, rail, police, higher education and sport, and €0.5 billion jointly for hospital reform and digitalization.
- The money is slated to flow over twelve years rather than through a supplementary budget.
- Opposition parties criticize the approach, with the AfD urging a supplementary budget and CDU finance politician Steeven Bretz warning against using the fund to plug budget holes.